97 m. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

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3 h. ago Sydney restaurant faces human rights complaint after temporarily denying entry to people wearing keffiyehs

Exclusive: Racial Justice Centre to file Australian Human Rights Commission complaint against Merivale restaurant Jimmy’s FalafelGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Racial Justice Centre is preparing to file a group complaint with the Australian Human Rights Commission after a Sydney restaurant denied dine-in service to people wearing Palestinian keffiyehs during a 20-minute period last weekend.The legal centre will file the complaint to Australia’s national anti-discrimination body on behalf of six Palestinian complainants, regarding an incident that took place on 3 August at Merivale-owned Jimmy’s Falafel in the Sydney CBD after the Sydney Harbour Bridge march, first reported by the Sydney Morning Herald. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Prosecutors file more attempted murder charges against Minnesota man who killed lawmakers

A Minnesota man accused of killing a top Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another is now facing new and upgraded state charges in a fresh indictment

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4 h. ago Feds seek death penalty for member of radical ‘Zizian’ group accused of murdering US border agent in Vermont shootout

Prosecutors charged Milo Youngblut, 21, with murdering Border Patrol officer David Maland — one of six deaths connected the enigmatic

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5 h. ago Trudy Appleby, 11, vanished from outside her Illinois home in 1996. Cops have now charged a man with her murder

Jamison Albert Fisher was charged with the murder of Trudy Appleby, who went missing when she was 11 in 1996.

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5 h. ago Mother's distress as daughter, 15, found murdered 'by man, 67,' who then killed himself

Kyelonna Meya Smiley, 15, was discovered fatally shot in the head in a senior community in Phoenix and Nohe Prado Morelia, 67, took his own life four days later.

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6 h. ago Boy arrested on suspicion of murder and rape after girl, 13, dies

The girl's cause of death remains unexplained

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6 h. ago Judge orders RFK Jr.'s health department to stop sharing Medicaid data with deportation officials

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials

Politics

7 h. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman found dead in street

Police were called after a 36-year-old woman was found unconscious with serious head injuries

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7 h. ago Member of cultlike Zizian group faces new murder charge in border patrol agent’s death

A woman accused of killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a Vermont traffic stop in January has been indicted on murder and other new charges that make her eligible for the death penalty

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7 h. ago ‘This is America’: New Jersey gym teacher told Egyptian Muslim student she’d be in ‘jail’ by 16 during bullying campaign, lawsuit alleges

Kathie DeBonis allegedly told teen Jana Gadalla that fasting during Ramadan might help her lose weight and she should ‘just go drink alcohol’

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9 h. ago Teen boy arrested in connection with rape and murder of teen girl

The boy also faces charges in connection with the rape of another girl, aged 16. Emergency services were called to a property in Huddersfield at 11.36pm on Monday, August 11.

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9 h. ago How the capture of a serial killer father led to a breakthrough in his own daughter’s separate murder case

Melissa Wolfenbarger, a 21-year-old married mother-of-two, had been missing for four years before her remains were finally identified. But decades passed and the identity of her killer remained a mystery – until now. Crime Scene Investigator Sheryl ‘Mac’ McCollum tells Andrea Cavallier how her podcast, with help from experts, the media and the victim’s serial killer dad helped crack the case wide open

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10 h. ago Teen influencer trapped for a month after landing in Antarctica makes deal so he can leave continent

Chile said Ethan Guo can leave Antarctica — if he can find a way off the icy island where he’s been detained

Economics

10 h. ago Teenage boy, 16, arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering 13

A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl who was found dead at home.

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10 h. ago Boy, 16, arrested for 'rape and murder' as girl, 13, found in Huddersfield house

Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of rape and murder of the teen after a 13-year-old girl was found unresponsive at a property in Huddersfield and later died in hospital

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10 h. ago ‘He’s 180 pounds. I’m 300 pounds’: Former college football player who spent two months in jail for a murder he did not commit says he never matched the suspect’s description

Ty’Ran Dixon — whose name was similar to the suspect later charged — was arrested in August 2024 for the murder of 21-year-old Jasmine Roach

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10 h. ago Voices: What a cheek! The US is in no position to lecture us about free speech

An annual global human rights report from the US state department has declared that freedom of speech is under threat in the UK. The British are too polite to tell the Trump administration what we really think about that – but I’m not, writes Sean O’Grady

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10 h. ago Man charged with murder after death of 'popular' man found injured in Aberdeen flat

Scott Lewis Adams, 46, appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court on Thursday.

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10 h. ago Thug finally guilty of murder... 12 YEARS after brutally attacking homeless man

Anthony Ellis lied over and over again to emergency services that he had not inflicted the attack that would leave the homeless man needing round-the-clock care until he died years later from his horrific brain injuries

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